Bone White Color Codes
Bone White is a very light, saturated amber with the hex code #F1E1B0, RGB values of 241, 225, 176 and an HSL value of hsl(45, 70%, 82%).
| HEX | #F1E1B0 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 241, 225, 176 |
| HSL | hsl(45, 70%, 82%) |
| HSV | 45°, 27%, 95% |
| CMYK | 0%, 7%, 27%, 5% |
| LAB | 89.71, -1.91, 26.00 |
| CIELCHuv | 89.71, 39.10, 71.27° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 155 C ΔE 3.9 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
wheatΔE 4.0
Community source color-name-list, community color-name index
Bone White Color Hex Code
The Bone White color hex code is #F1E1B0. Those six digits are three pairs, F1 for red, E1 for green and B0 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#F1E1B0
Bone White Color RGB Code
The Bone White RGB code is rgb(241, 225, 176). Red carries the most light at 241 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(241, 225, 176)
Bone White Color HSV Code
The Bone White HSV code is 45°, 27%, 95%. Read it as a hue of 45 degrees, 27% saturation and 95% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
45°, 27%, 95%
Bone White Color CIELChuv Code
The Bone White CIELCHuv code is 89.71, 39.10, 71.27°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 90 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 39 is how far it sits from grey.
89.71, 39.10, 71.27°
Tonal scale
What are Bone White Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Bone White Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #F1E1B0. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Directly opposite sits #B0C0F1, a light, saturated azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.
Analogous
#F1C1B0 and #E1F1B0 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.
Triadic
#B0F1E1 and #E1B0F1 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #B0E1F1 and #C1B0F1. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #B0C0F1, and #B0F1C1 with #F1B0E1. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Bone White accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
1.30:11.30
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Black background
16.14:116.14
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
At 1.30:1 against white, Bone White is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 16.14:1.
Color vision
How Bone White looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#EAEABD
Bone White shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.0
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#EBECC0
Bone White shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.7
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#F0C7C9
Bone White changes substantially here. ΔE 27.9
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#E2E2E2
Bone White changes substantially here. ΔE 26.1
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Bone White reads as #EBECC0. That is a shift of ΔE 7.7, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 27.9. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Bone White in code
:root {
--bone-white: #F1E1B0;
}
.example {
color: var(--bone-white);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'bone-white': '#F1E1B0',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let boneWhite = Color(
red: 0.945,
green: 0.882,
blue: 0.690
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="bone_white">#F1E1B0</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const boneWhite = Color(0xFFF1E1B0);